Effective energy storage from a triboelectric nanogenerator

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Zi, Yunlong ^a   Wang, Jie ^a   Wang, Sihong ^a   Li, Shengming ^a   Wen, Zhen ^a   Guo, Hengyu ^a   Wang, Zhong Lin ^a,b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POWER GENERATION;

ARTICLE; DIODE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ENERGY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GENERATOR; STATIC ELECTRICITY; STORAGE; SURFACE CHARGE; TRIBOELECTRIC NANOGENERATOR; ANIMAL; DEVICES; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; ELECTRONICS; HUMAN; MOTION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POWER SUPPLY;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MOTION; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84960920281     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10987     Document Type: Article

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